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Leonard Chess
Leonard Chess is credited on 289 releases across 103 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1961–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
289
Pressings credited
103
Albums
7
Decades active
223
In collections
Biography
Leonard Samuel Chess (born Lejzor Szmuel Czyż; March 12, 1917 – October 16, 1969) was a Polish-American record company executive and the founder of Chess Records alongside his brother Phil. He was influential in the development of the recording industry, and electric blues, Chicago blues, and rock and roll.
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Credited work
289 releases · 103 albums · active 1961–2023
- Production · 188
- Performance · 73
- Other credits · 66
- Engineering · 9
Studios: Ahmad Jamal's Alhambra · Chess Studios · United Recording Studios · Universal Recording Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
At Last!
1960
Moanin' In The Moonlight
1959
The Great Twenty-Eight
1982
Chuck Berry's Golden Decade (The Original Two Albums)
1967
Berry Is On Top
1959
The Best Of Muddy Waters
1958
Bo Diddley
1958
St. Louis To Liverpool
1964
Whose Muddy Shoes
1969
His Greatest Sides: Volume One
1983
The Chess Box
1989
Boss Blues Harmonica
1972
I Was Walking Through The Woods
1970
All Of You
1962
Ahmad Jamal's Alhambra
1961
After School Session
1957
Confessin' The Blues
1974
Chester Burnett A.K.A. Howlin' Wolf
1972
McKinley Morganfield A.K.A. Muddy Waters
1971
Rockin' At The Hops
1960
The Anthology
2000
His Best
1997
Hate To See You Go
1969
First Time I Met The Blues 1958-1963 Recordings
2015
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